[atlarge-discuss] Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] some news stories from Shanghai

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Kathy and all assembly members, stakeholders or other interested
parties,

  Thank you for passing this along Kathy.  Of course none of it is
all that surprising or should be considered unexpected except perhaps
to the ICANN BOD and staff...

  As you know Kathy and I am sure many others perhaps our members
have been garnering support for cleaning up the mess that ICANN
has created and is continuing to make much worse despite the
"Blueprint For Reform" effort that Stuart Lynn has independently
decided without the stakeholders/users prior knowledge or
input hoist upon the stakeholders/users in an weak and
rather "Milk-Toast" effort to brow beat large groups of
Stakeholders/users and constituencies such as the DNSO GA
into going along with.  That effort of political move earned
this reform effort the now well known label of "Black-and-Blueprint"...

KathrynKL@aol.com wrote:

>    FYI -- some articles about activities and discussions taking place
> at ICANN.
> These do not involve the Noncommercial Constituency (but may be
> interesting
> anyway).
>
> regards, kathy kleiman
> from shanghai
>
> Copyright 2002 Warren Publishing, Inc.
> WASHINGTON INTERNET DAILY
>
> OCTOBER 28, 2002
>
> SECTION: Vol.3, No.208
>
> LENGTH: 245 words
>
> HEADLINE: Domain Names
>
> BODY:
> Increased domain-name registrations spurred "pretty healthy" growth in
> the
> generic top-level domain (gTLD) zone file in the 3rd quarter,
> SnapNames said
> in its quarterly report on the "State of the Domain." .com, .net and
> .org
> (CNO) saw nearly 300,000 new registrations, while new gTLDs .biz,
> .info and
> .name added 163,000, the report said. NeuStar, the .biz and .us
> registry, "is
> probably pleased" by the takeup of names under its new .us operation,
> SnapNames said. If current trends continue, it said, .us will break
> the
> 400,000 total by year's end. Go Daddy remained the fastest-growing
> registrar
> in the 3rd quarter, SnapNames said, with eNOm close behind. Lead
> registrar
> VeriSign dropped more market share in the quarter, sinking to 30.13%
> from
> 32.99%, the report said. Overall, SnapNames said, .com still is the
> preferred
> gTLD domain address. ------
>
> The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will be the sole
> domain-name dispute resolution service provider for the .edu top-level
> domain
> (TLD) under an agreement with EDUCAUSE, the .edu registry, WIPO said.
> The
> domain is restricted to regionally accredited, U.S. degree-granting
> higher
> education institutions. In resolving .edu cybersquatting claims, WIPO
> will
> apply the .edu Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (eduDRP), a
> modified
> version of ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, WIPO said. Under
> the
> WIPO-EDUCAUSE contract, WIPO said, all arbitration panelists must be
> American.
>
> LOAD-DATE: October 27, 2002
>
>
>
> Copyright 2002 Warren Publishing, Inc.
> WASHINGTON INTERNET DAILY
>
> OCTOBER 29, 2002
>
> SECTION: Vol.3, No.209
>
> LENGTH: 689 words
>
> HEADLINE: Unhappy with ICANN, ccTLds, RIRs Eye Takeover of IANA
> Functions
>
> BODY:
> SHANGHAI, China -- Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and some
> country-code
> top level domain (ccTLD) managers warned ICANN Oct. 27 either to fix
> its
> Internet Assigned Names Authority (IANA) services or have them taken
> over.
> "We could take out the IANA function," said Nominet U.K. Mgr. Willie
> Black at
> a meeting of ccTLD managers at the ICANN session here. "IANA is just
> doing
> fine," responded ICANN ccTLD liaison Herbert Vizthum. IANA is charged
> with
> keeping the ccTLD database up to date as well as allocating IP address
> space.
> Neither the RIRs nor many ccTLDs have formal contracts with ICANN, and
> the
> Dept. of Commerce (DoC) conditioned the recent renewal of its
> Memorandum of
> Understanding (MoU) with ICANN in part on securing such agreements
> (WID Sept
> 23 p1). ccTLD managers complain the IANA function is "broken" because
> ICANN
> has been too slow to answer requests from the 250 countries and has
> tried to
> force some managers to accept bilateral agreements as a precondition
> to
> simple nameserver changes. Just last week, ICANN officials ended a
> dispute
> with German DENIC eG, which had been requesting a nameserver change
> for
> months but was denied because DENIC disagreed with ICANN on the
> necessity of
> giving ICANN a complete set of its actual zone file. While ICANN
> insists it
> has to store the data for backup and security reasons, DENIC CEO
> Sabine
> Dolderer said: "It is completely local." Other ccTLD representatives
> charged
> ICANN treated ccTLDs just like its generic TLD contractors.
>
> ICANN's formal agreements with ccTLDs have given both sides headaches
> for 4
> years. Under the terms of its MoU with the DoC, ICANN is obliged to
> sign
> agreements with all ccTLD managers but has failed to do so because of
> differing opinions on the relationship among ICANN, ccTLDs and their
> respective local govts. "You did not take the [opportunity] to
> apologize for
> the way you have chosen the ccTLD assistance group," Peter Thrush, a
> member
> of the Domain Name Supporting Organization ccTLD Constituency
> administration
> committee, told members of the Evolution & Reform Committee (ERC). The
> ERC
> had invited people to work on the future role of the ccTLDs and on
> their
> possible supporting organization without asking ccTLD members for
> input.
>
> While the ccTLD community weighs its chances for self- organization of
>
> technical services such as nameserver changes -- or even an
> alternative bid
> to Commerce for the IANA function (that ICANN and Commerce must
> renegotiate
> next spring) -- RIRs have taken a bolder step. At the ccTLD meeting,
> Asia
> Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) representatives Paul Smith
> and
> Geoff Huston unveiled a plan to establish an "Internet Number Resource
>
> Registry" (NRR). Founded jointly by all 4 RIRs worldwide (APNIC, the
> American
> Registry for Internet Numbers, Reseaux IP Europeens Network
> Coordination
> Centre and the Latin American & Caribbean Network Information Center),
> the
> NRR would be handed another big piece of the ICANN pie -- allocation
> of IP
> number blocks. RIRs would take turns chairing the NRR and maintaining
> the
> actual master database for IP allocation. The only role left for ICANN
> then
> would be reviewing NRR and RIR actions through the Address Supporting
> Organization.
>
> "We have successfully engaged industry stakeholders and governmental
> bodies,"
> Huston said. "And we believe we have the necessary track records to do
> this."
> The RIRs are "truly self-organized" bodies and takeover of the IP
> addressing
> coordination would help avoid imposing top-down ICANN decisions on the
> RIRs,
> he said. The ccTLDs applauded the RIR blueprint, but officials of
> ICANN's
> Governmental Advisory Committee had a more skeptical view on the RIRs'
>
> chances to win approval for the superregistry. In his first reaction
> to the
> proposal, ICANN director and ERC head Alejandro Pisanty said details
> would
> have to be discussed.
>
> RIRs already function quite independently of ICANN, and it's an open
> question
> how they would react to a "no" from the ICANN board. "We have no Plan
> B, we
> are not playing games," APNIC Dir. Gen. Paul Wilson said. "We play
> straight."
> -- Monika Ermert
>
> LOAD-DATE: October 28, 2002
>
>
> Copyright 2002 Business Wire, Inc.
> Business Wire
>
> October 28, 2002, Monday 08:10 AM Eastern Time
>
> DISTRIBUTION: Business Editors/Technology Writers
>
> LENGTH: 615 words
>
> HEADLINE: UltraDNS To Provide DNS Infrastructure for .ORG; UltraDNS
> Replaces
> Verisign's DNS With Next Generation Non-BIND DNS Infrastructure
>
> DATELINE: SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 28, 2002
>
> BODY:
>  UltraDNS Corporation, the single largest provider of DNS
> infrastructure for
> the top-level domain (TLD) space, today announced its replacement of
> Verisign
> as the provider of global DNS services for .ORG, the fifth largest
> TLD. Last
> week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
> Board
> of Directors selected the Internet Society (ISOC) as the new registry
> operator of the .ORG top level domain. UltraDNS is ISOC's chosen
> global DNS
> infrastructure provider for the .ORG TLD. .ORG's DNS infrastructure
> currently
> uses the Berkley Internet Name Domain (BIND) system. By shifting one
> of the
> most important TLDs to a cutting edge non-BIND based system, ICANN is
> eliminating the many known BIND vulnerabilities exploited by hackers,
> as well
> as the possibility of an Internet-wide catastrophic failure.
>
> UltraDNS is already the industry's single largest provider of DNS
> infrastructure for the TLD space. Its industry leading, non-BIND based
>
> Managed DNS Service(TM) already handles DNS resolutions for several
> generic
> top-level domains (gTLDs) and several country code top-level domains
> (ccTLDs), including .INFO, .COOP, .AERO, .NO (Norway), .LU
> (Luxembourg), .IE
> (Ireland), and .CX (Christmas Island). UltraDNS' selection to
> implement the
> DNS infrastructure for .ORG only enhances its position in the
> industry.
>
> "While this is very big news for UltraDNS, it is also an important
> development for the public Internet. By having .ORG domain names
> resolve
> through a non-BIND based DNS infrastructure such as UltraDNS', the
> Internet
> is immeasurably safer and more reliable," said Ben Petro, president
> and CEO
> of UltraDNS. "ICANN's decision to award the .ORG registry operation to
> ISOC
> is a vote of confidence in ISOC's selected service providers, such as
> UltraDNS, and their capabilities."
>
> UltraDNS' DNS infrastructure guarantees mission-critical, 100 percent
> directory services reliability and high performance - unlike legacy
> BIND
> systems. Utilizing proprietary Directory Services Platform, UltraDNS
> has
> built the first global, fail-safe server network designed to meet
> demands for
> 100 percent, SLA-guaranteed reliability, scalability, security, and
> high
> performance data management in today's Internet and telecom
> environment -
> supporting millions of users managing billions of records.
>
> "We are honored to have been selected to provide what is clearly a
> critical
> service for the global Internet community. By leveraging UltraDNS'
> existing
> and significant carrier-class infrastructure, which supports our
> Fortune 500
> clients, we are able to provide unmatched DNS service for the .ORG
> community
> without having to impose a financial burden on it," said Rodney Joffe,
>
> chairman and CTO of UltraDNS. "It helps complement the
> community-based, free
> secondary.com DNS service UltraDNS has recently acquired and
> strengthened."
>
> About UltraDNS
>
> Based in San Mateo, Calif., UltraDNS(TM) Corporation is the leading
> Directory
> Infrastructure Services Provider (DISP), delivering solutions that
> enhance
> the reliability and performance of the world's largest directories and
> the
> mission-critical applications that access them. UltraDNS provides
> managed
> services and also develops custom infrastructure solutions based on
> its
> proprietary Directory Services Platform, the first global directory
> infrastructure capable of the most demanding database problems -- such
> as
> Internet site requests. Customers include Oracle, MSN Hotmail,
> Forbes.com,
> Corio, and Handspring. For more information, visit www.ultradns.com.
>
> UltraDNS and UltraDNS logo is a registered trademark of UltraDNS
> Corporation.
> All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of
> their
> respective holders.  CONTACT: UltraDNS Corporation
> Stephanie Pike, 650/227-2638
> spike@ultradns.com  URL: http://www.businesswire.com
>
>
>
>
>

Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup - (Over 127k members/stakeholders strong!)
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
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